In conversation my myth-o-meter often registers high on the topic of fuel prices. So investigate I must. Did you know that the GST on fuel is a tax on a tax? And that 51% of the current price of fuel is tax?

How bout some Google Calc fun. Using random prices from online and the top of my head...

The price of fuel around the world! (in Australian cents per litre)

America

105.5

Australia

149.9

UK

230.2

Germany

241.8

Netherlands

269.1

So we're worse off than America, but the poor Hollandians :'(
Let us give them a moments silence.